{"id":430094,"date":"2021-08-11T10:19:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T04:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=430094"},"modified":"2021-08-11T12:21:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T06:51:43","slug":"dgca-in-new-advisory-amid-complaints-of-surge-check-airline-website-for-fares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-in-new-advisory-amid-complaints-of-surge-check-airline-website-for-fares\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA in new advisory amid complaints of surge: Check airline website for fares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday issued an advisory for international passengers to check fare on the websites of airlines before booking tickets amid complaints of a surge in fares in economy class. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPassengers travelling to international destinations are requested to check the fare preferably from the website of the concerned airline as the metasearch engines at times do not reflect the actual point to point fare and do make combinations of multiple airlines and end up with an exaggerated figure,\u201d DGCA said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The matter came to light after Sanjeev Gupta, secretary, interstate council secretariat, union home ministry, on Saturday tweeted that an economy-class ticket on British Airways\u2019s Delhi-London flight for August 26 was priced at \u20b93.95 lakh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday issued an advisory for international passengers to check fare on the websites of airlines before booking tickets amid complaints of a surge in fares in economy class. \u201cPassengers travelling to international destinations are requested to check the fare preferably from the website of the concerned airline as the metasearch engines at times do not reflect the actual point to point fare and do make combinations of multiple airlines and end up with an exaggerated figure,\u201d DGCA said on Tuesday. The matter came to light after Sanjeev Gupta, secretary, interstate council [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}